Hello Everyone
Here is a great resource for learning to write visually...this is crucial for people who read your scripts to "see" the movie you want to make whether you plan on becoming a screenwriter and sell your scripts, or just get folks to help you make your film or even finance it...working industry director/writer Guy Magar wrote this article to help screenwriters and you can find it at http://www.actioncut.com/fms/howtowritevisually.htm and print it if you wish. I am the National Manager of Action/Cut and invite you to check this crucial visual writing info. I wish you all the best of success with your screenwriting.
JacquiB
http://www.actioncut.com

Write Visually, Direct Editorially.

So the writing is the story, and serves the film, and the film serves the story and makes a motion picture.

I don't get why the article states that directors take offense at screenplays 'directing' when writing visually is still entering into the director's area. The honest truth is that the relationship between a screenwriter and a director is organic and impossible to define strictly - there has to be some element of directing in a screenplay, since it was created by a human, and directing structures any narrative. At the same time, if the screenplay describes every scene's emotional content and visual aesthetic there's no way left for the director to leave his personal stamp.

Visual language is fine and helpful, but somehow claiming that directors 'love' to see that strikes me as odd if they are so against screenwriters 'directing on paper.'

It`s directors work to visualize the story.
The best variant is that the director is a scriptwriter.